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Cigarette Smoking Amond Colleg
Number of Words: 1462 / Number of Pages: 6
... stereotype them with the characteristic of a "smoker." For my purposes and the purposes of this project I have set my own standards to clarify and make my research in general easier to understand. I have recently "quit" smoking and I still occasionally have a cigarette, but still do not consider myself a "smoker." On the other hand, I do not believe someone should have to be a chain smoker to be considered a "smoker." So, for research purposes, I chose an intermediate standard. A "smoker" will be someone who smokes cigarettes at least once a day, with going no longer than two days without having a ci ...
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The Senegal Tribe
Number of Words: 224 / Number of Pages: 1
... the
nation that we now know as Senegal.
In the 1800's, there was no Senegal but there was a nation that became
Senegal much later. The tribe was ruled by Samori Toure when the Europeans
started coming. Samori Toure signed an agreement with the French in an effort to
keep the land they had owned for centuries. Unfortunately, the French broke the
agreement and war broke out for 7 years. The people of Senegal were defeated in
1898. This war was one of the few examples of overt resistance during the
colonization of Africa.
The geographical situation of the people of Senegal was one of the
reasons that ...
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Socrates
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... clear that neither of them knew. They would then cooperate on a new idea where would make interrogatory suggestions that were either accepted or rejected by his friend. Finding a solution always failed, but they would continue to search for one whenever possible.
For knowledge was not accepting a second hand opinion, but personal achievement gained through continuous self-criticism. Philosophy involved not learning the answers but searching for them. The search was more successful when done by two friends; perhaps one being more experienced that the other but both in love with the goal of truth ...
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Free Speech On Campus
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... he was saying. Much less, he probably didn’t even remember in the morning. How many times have you had something said to you that upset you, offended you, or made you mad? Much less, how many times has a drunken person said something to you that made you mad? For example, my last name is Abdo, which is Arabic. I know that there are some Middle Easterners who are crazy and like to blow up American buildings. Right after the Oklahoma bombing, everyone suspected that it was an Arab terrorist. Well, my mom works at a bank and has a little nameplate on her desk and is as American as she looks with her ...
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The Job Of A Graphic Designer
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... ease of use, and graphics capabilities. For storage they use Zip disks ranging from 100 megabytes to 250 megabytes, and Jazz drives which can go from 1 gigabyte to 2 gigabytes, and now they even use protable Fire-Wire hard drives, or even CD-R
S, CD-RW’s, and nowadays DVD.
Training
No specific training is required for a graphic artist, since anyone with talent can get a job for themselves, but those who want the best jobs will want to have training in, or at least be familiar with, Photoshop, Freehand, Quark Express, and Multi Ad Creator. Also, if working with web design, should be ...
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Upper And Lower Canada
Number of Words: 687 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the Colonial Office and governors. The rebels felt they should follow the example of the American to the South. In Lower Canada some of the same reasons may be true but here there is more conflict, the French feel there leaders are spending their money on roads and canals for the English merchants. They feel dominated by English leaders and are afraid to lose their culture. The similarities are found in the unhappiness of the people of both Canadas with the political structure, but the differences are much bigger. In Lower Canada, it is a conflict of people wanting to keep their way of life, their ...
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MAQUILADORAS AND THE NAFTA’S I
Number of Words: 2027 / Number of Pages: 8
... United States. The idea was that Mexican workers would be kept on the Mexican side of the border if they were given factory jobs on the Mexican side. The Maquiladora program also wanted to attract foreign manufacturing facilities, technology, and know-how by giving a permanent tax holiday to manufacturing companies that would set up “twin plants” on the Mexican side of the border.
In the beginning of the program, all foreign-owned operations had to be located within a 20-kilometer strip along the US-Mexican border. Since 1972 they can be located anywhere in Mexico. In 1996 there were around 2,5 ...
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Developing Solutions
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... search for solutions on the presumption that there are no new problems, only unsolved ones. This simply suggests the research team ask, "has anyone else had this problem?" Consideration would be given to a problem of similar circumstances, how they solved the problem previously, if the solution was successful, and if any disadvantages resulted from the solutions implemented. This method simply uses history to our advantage so that don’t find ourselves re-creating a solution that perhaps has already been developed that would serve current needs.
A second consideration would be to find out if ...
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What Is Phreaking Exactly
Number of Words: 1880 / Number of Pages: 7
... and
decodes back to sound. A modem is based on a universal language of sounds
transfered through the modem. Modem stands for the work Modulator/Demodulator
This is like receiveing and sending. Now, with most modems, before connecting,
tones just are just the same as the tones that a common phone can make.
But the phone can make many tones and some have purposes that are very
useful, tones that are reserved for At&t, and thus dangerous. To go through
all the tone would be senseless and a book on tones alone could be written
(Hmm... maybe I could...) so I will not go into that ...
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A Look At Lsd And The Counter Culture Movement
Number of Words: 1704 / Number of Pages: 7
... step for the evolution of the human mind.
Hallucinogenic drugs like LSD and psilocylin have been embedded in the roots of human evolution. Many of the early Eastern and South American cultures devoted these drugs as tools able to help clear the disorder of the mind and help in achieving a higher level of conscience thinking. Little was known of the effects to these primitive spiritual tools too much of the modern Western world, until Leary and his colleagues entered the scene in the 1960’s.
Timothy Leary was a young, prestigious Harvard professor of psychology during the 1960’s. H ...
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